U.S. to Open a New Military Base in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Friday 15 April 2011
U.S. to Open a New Military Base in Honduras

Tegucigalpa - Douglas M. Fraser, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command met Honduran Minister of Defense Marlon Pascua and agreed that the United States will increase its military bases in Honduran northern coast.

Fraser is visiting Honduras, according to him, for concreting cooperation agreements to fight drug trafficking and for a better regional security.

El Heraldo newspaper posted that a new base will be open in Islas de Bahia with the assessment of U.S. Southern Command.

The U.S. Southern Command is assessing another base since 2010 in Gracias a Dios department, in the border with Nicaragua with the pretext of fighting drug trafficking.

More:
http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2011/april/15/centralamerica11041501.htm

On edit, adding maps of new base location:

http://liz2.re-data.org.nyud.net:8090/assets/honduras_map2.gif http://www.landfall-learning.org.nyud.net:8090/images/misc/mapCaribbean2007B.jpg

[Judi Lynn]

1. US to Open New Military Base in Honduras

US to Open New Military Base in Honduras
by CubaDebate

The United States is planning to open a new military base in the Islas de la Bahía (Bay Islands) in Honduras, according to a report in the Honduran newspaper El Heraldo this Wednesday.

The news emerged after the meeting between Honduran Defense Minister Marlon Pascual and the head of the US Sothern Command Douglas Fraser.

The US military commander is on a visit to this Central American country to promote agreements that supposedly expand the collaboration against drug trafficking and the struggle to improve regional security.

The Honduran newspaper said that the opening of this new military base would constitute the second such opening in less than a year, after April 2010 when the Southern Command established its presence in Gracias a Dios Department on the border with Nicaragua.

More:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/honduras160411.html

[Peace Patriot]

2. Interesting map. You can SEE the corpo-fascist/Pentagon "circle the wagons" area

and why our corpo-fascists, with their U.S. "free trade for the rich" agenda, hate having a socialist democracy at about 5 o'clock on their (sort of) circle--the one with all the oil.

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I'm curious, Judi, did you add "Plan B" on this map--or did "Inside Costa Rica" (or the Pentagon)?

"Plan B" in case they are forced to stop stealing Iraq's oil, and can't steal Iran's? "Plan B" as the bastion against UNASUR (South American EU-type economic/political integration and thus collective clout)? Both, probably. They also need this region as the corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs" backup gravy train for our war profiteers. This region is going to be doing triple duty as a chattel for the U.S.

We can also see why they did a fascist coup in Honduras and how important Haiti is, and why the U.S. keeps throwing Aristde out and keeps "fixing" Haiti's elections (even as recently as last week). Haiti is so close to Guantanamo Bay and Cuba! And Honduras is sandwiched between two countries--El Salvador and Nicaragua--where the former leftist guerillas' parties are now the elected governments, and that the U.S. must dearly want to bully, threaten, destabilize and topple, with infiltrators from Honduras (traditional U.S. stepping stool for U.S. aggression against Honduras' neighbors).

One other thought: This map puts the Honduran coup general's remark (quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile) that their coup was "intended to prevent communism from Venezuela reaching the United States" in a sharper light.

Universal health care threatens. As do Venezuela's honest, transparent, internationally certified elections. They don't want social justice and democracy to reach our shores. They're messing up Mexico real bad--what with the ATF supplying guns to the drug gangs and all--as a sort of blood-strewn, makeshift barrier to "communism from Venezuela." The "wall" was absurd. A pile of bodies is so much better.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I posted them as they appeared in a search for "Isla Bahia." When I learn where the other base is,

I'll post that map, too.

Very odd, creating a US-friendly base right on their border with Nicaraqua, too, isn't it?

So there are THREE bases which will be in use by the US in such a small country, while the citizens still are forced to rely on the airport in Tegucigalpa which is deemed the SECOND MOST DANGEROUS landing strip in the entire world.

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http://rss.xinhuanet.com.nyud.net:8090/newsc/english/2008-05/31/xin_05205053109573751550723.jpg

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http://www.cpcml.ca.nyud.net:8090/images2009/LatinAmerica/081006-HondurasComayagua-01.jpg
Three U.S. Americans were killed in a crash there of an airliner from San Pedro Sula, on a routine flight. Everyone on board was killed in February, 2011.

All that matters is that this country serves the interests of US military power, apparently.

[flamingdem]

4. que sorpresa! nt